Manifolding copy book or pad.



m.mxm I w PATENTED DEC. 24, 1907.

1). A. ROBERTS. MANIPOLDING COPY BOOK OR PAD.

V APPLICATION FILED AUG- 18. 1906.

INVENTOR Qmcmxm 3 ATTORNEY DANI EL A. ROBERTS,- OF ELMIBA, NEW YORK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

MANIFOLDING COPY BOOK OR PAD.

Patented Dec. 24, 1907.-

Applicatioii filed August 18, 1906. Serial No. 331,206.

To all whom it may concern:

, Be it known that I, DANIEL A. Ronnnrs, a

citizen of the United States, residing at 151- a mira, in'the county of Chemung and State of .New York, have invented certain new and useful Innrovements in Manifolding Copy Books or ads, of which the following is a specification.

- This invention relates to improvements in the books 'or pads used by merchants and others in taking manifold copies of orders, etc; and the object of mywinvention is to provide means for manipulating the leaves of the book or pad without touching the carbon,

or transfer, sheet with the fingers.

I attain my object by constructing the leaves of the book or pad in'the manner illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a pers 'ective view of a manifolding sales book em odying my improvernents with the carbon sheet stapled in with the leaves of the pad and overlying the uppermost of said leaves; Fig.2, a similar view of the book, with the uppermost original leaf drawn out from under the carbon sheet and laid down upon said sheet in position for writing an order thereon and transferring Y said order, through the medium of the carbon sheet, to the underlying copy leaf.

Like letters of reference designate like parts in the two views.

The sales book illustrated in the drawings comprises a pad of leaves made up of pairs of leaves constituting original and duplicate leaves, the duplicate leaves being provided with projecting stubs at one end which are stapled together at B, and the original leaves being attached to the opposite end of the duplicate, leaves and in'terfolded between said leaves, said original leaves being shorter 1 than the duplicate leaves by the width of the stub. The duplicate leaves are rendereddetachable from the stub by a perforated line (not 'shown) and the original leaf is rendered detachable from the duplicate by a perforated line (not shown). This constitutes what is known to the trade as the paragon or interfolded pad, a common and well known form of pad for sales book purposes.

Stapled in with the leaves of the pad is a carbon, or transfer, sheet C designed to completely overlie the surface of the leaves of the pad; and the pad is usually supplied with a 55 cover, as indicated at D, to which the pad is attached in any desirable manner.

In the two views, E indicates the original leaf of the uppermost pair of leaves, and F the-duplieate leaf, said leaves being joined together at the crease G, the line of jointure being perforated to'render the leaves easily detachable one from the other.

In manipulating a book of this character, it is required to draw out the uppermost original leaf from under the carbon sheet and lay it down upon the carbon sheet, in order that the matter written upon the original may be transferred to the underlying dupli-.

cat-e. Unless some means be provided to avoid it, the carbon sheet must be taken hold of and lifted away from the underlying original leaf in order to' get hold of said leaf to draw it out from under the carbon sheet. This rubs the carbon and smuts the fingers. To avoid this handling of the carbon sheet, I provide the original leavesat one side, and

preferably near thefree ends of the leaves,

This ear enables with a projecting ear H. the user to take hold of the leaf with his thumb and fingers and to .draw the leaf out from. under the carbon sheet without touching said sheet. This is done by placing the thumb on the ear and pressing the leaf downwardly away from the stub, or to one side, until the car can be grasped between thumb and finger, to draw out the leaf and place it above the carbon sheet without touching said sheetwith the hands.

ln Fig. 2 l have shown the original leaf E as having been drawn out from under the carbon sheet and laid down in position thereover forwrit-ing, one of the intermediate positions of said original leaf being indicated in broken lines. When the original leaf is after which it is a simple matter drawn back, as in tlm-position shown by tho broken lines, it 'will be evident that the carbon sheet will drop down into place upon the underlying duplicate leaf and that no han dling ol' the carbon sheet will be required. After the-writing is done the original and duplicate leaves are detached from the stub at one and the same time, permitting the caribou sheet to fall upon the next original lea in order that the ears ll on the original leaves may be properly sup orted and niaintained in place, l preferab y rovide corresponding cars on the du icate leaves. These ears on the duplicate Feaves, in some forms of pads, may also be used in Withdrawing tiem fromlunder the carbon sheet when detaching them from the pad. It will, comprising a plurality of sheets each of of course, be understood that t 1e size, shape and location of these ears may be changed without-departing from the spirit of my i11- vention; also that said ears may be arranged on one side or the other of the pad, and that I. may provide them on both sides, if that be desirable. By providing these projecting ears where it is required to take hold of the leaves to withdraw them from under the carbon sheet, I am enabled to make the carbon sheet of the full width of the leaves of the pad from top to bottom of the writing surface, thereby insuring that any matter written upon the original leaf, no matter where it may be upon said leaf, will be trans ferred in full upon the underlying duplicate leaf. in sales books it is especially essential that there shallbe no projection of the original leaf beyond the sides of the carbon sheet where the entries of charge and credit are made. I, therefore, locate the ears Ii at a point somewhere above the space ruled for these entries, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

As many changes could be made in the above construct-ion and many a )parently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown inthc acconn'ianyingdrawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and. not in a limiting sense. it is also to be understood that the language used in the following claims is intended to cover all of the genericv and specific features of the invention herein described and all statements of the scope of the invention, which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

Having thus described my improvement, what claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters-Patent is:

1. In a device of the class described, a pad comprising a plurality of leaves each of which is provided with a portion which projects beyond the body of the pad, said projecting portions lying one above the other and in register with one another.

2. In a device of the class described, a pad comprising a plurality of leaves connected together at the stub end of the pad, and an overlying carbon sheet, each of. said leaves being provided with a )ortion which projects outwardly beyond t e body of the pad.

3. In a device of the class described, a pad comprising a plurality of leaves connected together at the stub end of the pad, an overlying transfer sheet, and an eaizupon each of said leaves which extends outwardly therefrom beyond the body of the pad and said transfer sheet, whereby said leaves may be grasped and manipulated without touching said transfer sheet. a

4. In a device of the class described, a pad which is folded into a plurality of leaf portions, said sheets being secured together at the stub end of the pad, a transferring medium attached to said be inserted between the leaf port-ions thereof, and an ear provided upon one of the leaf portions of each sheet by means of which the sheet may be graspedand manipulated with relation. to the transferring medium without touching the latter.

5. In a device of the class described, a pad comprising a plurality of leaves connected together at the stub end of the pad, an overlying transfcr sheet attached thereto, each of said sheets being folded at a point remote from the stub end of the pad into a plurality of leaf portions between which the transfer sheet may be inserted, and an ear upon one of the leaf portions of each sheet whereby said sheet may be grasped and drawn from beneath the transfer sheet with out touching the latter.

sheets and adapted to 6. In a device of the class described, a pad comprising a plurality of sheets each of which is folded upon itself at the lower end of the ad to form original and duplicate leaf portlons, a transferring sheet secured to the stub end of the pad and adapted tobe inserted between said leaf portions, and an ear provided upon the leaf portion of each. of said sheets.

7. In a device of the class described, a pad comprising a plurality of sheets each of which is folded upon itself to form original and duplicate leaf portions, corresponding leaf portions of said sheets being secured together at the stub end of the pad, a transferring sheet secured to the stub end of the pad and adapted to'be inserted between the leaf portions of each of said sheets, and an ear upon the corresponding leaf portion of each of said sheets which projects outwardly beyond the body of the pad by means of which said leaf portion may be grasped and drawn from beneath the transferring sheet.

8. In a device of the class described, a pad comprising a plurality of sheets each of which is folded upon itself to form a duplicate leaf portion and an original leaf portion, corresponding leaf portions be'in astened together at the stub end of the pa an overlying transfer sheet secured to the stub end of the ad and adapted to be inserted between the leaf portions of each of said sheets, and an ear rovided near the top of the latcral edgcof corresponding leaf portions of each sheet, said ears projecting laterally beyond the body of the pad.

9. in a device of the class described, a pad comprising a plurallty of sheets each of which is folded upon itself to form an original leaf portion and a duplicate leaf portion, corresponding leaf portions being fastened together at the stub end of the pad, a transferring sheet secured to said pad at the stub end thereof and adapted to be inserted be-' tween the leaf portions of each of said sheets, and an ear provided upon the original and duplicate leafportions of each of said sheets by means of which the former leaf portion the carbon sheet beyond the body of the pad,

whereby the leaves may be grasped in manipulating them with relation to the. carbon sheet without handling said sheet.

book or pad, of a carbon or transfer sheet normally resting upon the to of the pad and overlying the leaves thereof their free ends being concealed by the carbon sheet, and being provided at oneside the leaves at with cars which are exposed beyond the body of the ad, y

12.- n a device ofthe classfdescribed, a ad comprising a plurali'ty of connected eaves, and an overlying carbon sheet, cer-v tain of said leaves being provided with a portion which projects outwardly beyond the bodyof the pad.

13. In a device of the .class described, a

pad comprising a plurality of leaves connectedtoget er at the stub end of the pad, an overlying carbon sheet, and an ear upon certain of said leaves which extends out wardly therefrom beyond the body of the pad and said carbon sheet whereby said leaves may be grasped'and manipulated without touching said carbon sheet. 11. The combination, in a manifolding In testimony whereof I- have aflixed my signature, in presence of twowitnesses. DANIEL A. ROBERTS. Witnesses: V

' JAMES H. OBRIEn, L. V. SJIOELTZLER, 

